Zellis Background Checking for Effective Recruitment
Background checks play a critical role in shaping the cost, speed and overall effectiveness of your recruitment.
If you take a tick-box approach, the chances are you’ll up end up undertaking costly checks that may not actually be necessary for the role in question or, on the contrary, falling foul of the authorities by either not being thorough enough, or being too thorough. You also significantly increase your likelihood of hiring someone who isn’t the right fit.
Optimising the way your organisation conducts pre-employment screening starts with understanding how the most important types of background check should work, including:
Education and qualification checks
Employment and reference checks
Right to work checks
Criminal record and public safety checks
Online media checks
The devil is in the detail when undertaking these checks successfully, and a lack of best practice means they’re often poorly executed. Let’s explore them in more depth.